1/16th

As of this week, I've completed half a semester of classes. WOW does it seem like forever. I'm beginning to pick up on some basic important lessons, and I'm aware that I'm going to learn a few more when I get some grades for the first half of this semester over the next couple of weeks. Mainly, I'm finding that AE (Academic Excellence, our tutoring program run by upperclassmen) is a magical thing. I didn't take advantage of it much at first this year, but believe you me, when you're sitting at your desk working for 2 hours on a problem that makes no sense and many more hours of pending homework and a sunny warm day outside and people frolicking and an overwhelming sense of jealousy at all those not plagued by one stupidly long math/chemistry/physics problem, the correct answer is to seek help.

I think this applies in high school, too, but my guess is that if you're a high school student reading this blog, you're likely one of the people who didn't need to ask for help, who could sit for a bit and work out what was wrong and get the right answer in the end. That's how it was for me for a good chunk of high school, and it's lovely and satisfying and nice. That doesn't mean it's a good habit, though. When I started AP Physics at my school, I got pretty bad grades in my first month completely out of the blue, simply because I wouldn't ask for help learning simple concepts, wouldn't study them, wouldn't do anything except expect that it would make sense the next day. Oddly enough, that didn't work so well. And having not worked so well with high-school homework, you can probably imagine that when rhinoceri are moving at 3/5 c and all hell is breaking loose in what should have been an ideal gas, assuming it will make sense some time before you have to take a test is the wrong way to go.

Okay, off my soapbox now. It's been a pretty fun week...I'm almost not sick, we had Monday and Tuesday off, I don't have too much homework, I don't think I failed too badly on my exams, and some strange shenanigans the likes of which I cannot describe due to being sworn to secrecy about them have made this week (particularly today) interesting. Would that I could tell you, beloved readers...I guess you'll just have to go to school here and find out about stuff yourselves.